Sat down to do a few different things this morning but somehow it was important to do this instead! Done now so perhaps I can do the other things next, lol! Just a resume of things that happened last week really. More paint and ink background and loving my stamps at the moment.
Varying degrees of happiness about my first week’s pages.
I like this … already in just a very short space of time I seem to have conquered my fear/reluctance to use alphabet stickers – the only problem now that I can foresee is that I am likely to develop an alphabet sticker fetish. I used two different sets of foam stamps (New is Printers Blocks, Beginnings is Tumbleweed). The background is lightly chalked – I was reluctant to leave the background white, though I haven’t managed to work out why yet – it just didn’t look finished, I guess.
I’m not particularly happy with the side of this page with the photo on – it looks messy. It’s not a great picture of me (though I suppose that must be what I look like), but it was to hand so I used it as part of my going with the flow theme. I inked the edges of the paper with peacock gold ink, but you’d never know, it’s mainly looking blue, even on the paper. I inked the edges of the photo too, after I’d torn the edges off. I think half the problem is that whilst I actually quite like my own handwriting, I very very rarely use it in my scrapbooking – other than perhaps a date written in very small writing somewhere – perhaps it would be easier to say that I never use handwritten journaling – to me it looks unfinished and messy, I prefer to see it printed. Again to get rid of the white background I’ve lightly chalked the background. The one thing that I DO really like is the colour of the pen – which I ahem … ‘borrowed’ from Sean.
I do like the right hand side, however, though looking at it now I wonder if it needs more. I inked the whole page, and the paper was just a scrap that escaped from my scraps bag the other day when I was covering the journal, and didn’t quite manage to find it’s way back to the bag. The tag was a cream coloured one that I covered with a scrap of K and Co Juliana on the front, and a scrap of mottled pink cardstock on the back. I added ransom alphabet stickers to say ‘Changes’ on the front and wrote on the back some of the changes I hope to find myself making over the coming weeks. A bit of ribbon finished off the tag, and another flower sticker on the pocket. I think I might go and have a look at what rub-ons I have lying around … or wait until tonight and make myself a nice new sheet of rubber stamps with the precise words that I want. Hhhmmm, perhaps I should leave it as is, seemingly unfinished, to represent my own feelings of being unfinished. Hhhmmm.
Hope this uploads OK!
Well, here goes with my first page! I’m actually really pleased with how it turned out. I used the colours progressing from darker to lighter as a representation of how I hope the nest 20 weeks will be. Yes, I know it’s only colouring pencils but it seemed less threatening to start this way – and it was SO relaxing to do!
I felt the photo sums me up at the moment – exhausted after a day’s teaching, bags under my eyes, hair not brushed and chocolate round my mouth! (I didn’t notice the choc till after I’d printed it, but it seems quite appropriate!)
Thanks for looking and thanks, too, for sharing so much inspirational work so far!
Alison
Wooohooo! Just read the 2nd week prompt and very excited about it. In fact so excited reading and rereading it that my first risk was very nearly overflowing the bath which was running as I read. I am very excited about this week. The idea of risk is very close to my heart. I try to make decisions based on fear – my fear is very often the very signal that means “I have to do this!” Obviously this doesn’t extend to obviously stupidly dangerous things, eg. I am scared to cross the M25 on foot – I don’t plan to and promise I won’t… some fears are good!
right, sadly I have to go to first aid training, but I can’t wait for a go at this tonight,
I did 2 pages for week one today.
The first was the image I had in my had all week of blossoming and growing. I went to the art store yesterday and bought a whole bunch of stuff to use on the journal and the first thing I’ve used is the watercolors on this page.
Second page was what I came up with after re-reading the prompt for the week. I took some pictures of my new supplies and my eye & hand. I am trying to get the 2 more intouch with each other.
I still want to do one for the mid week prompt but I probably won’t post that one – will be kinda personal.
ok, someone needs to help me cuz it’s not posting my pics.
it’s late and I’m getting cranky and I’m going to bed. but if someone could comment with words of wisdom, that would be amazing!
this is not working at all.
I had a whole big thing written and then it wrote the stupid little thing about not posting my pics over the first post. ger.
ok…let’s try again…
blah, blah, blah…I=queen of procrastination. (that was the sum of my first long post that has disappeared)
ok…how do all of you post more than one image??
I tried and it didn’t post either…
so- here they are…one at a time…
This is my week one entry. I have also painted 6 more pages, ready for collage and journaling. I feel like I am right where I need to be now.
